Almost brilliant. You need to replace the A-G letter labels with meaningful letters. Use the first letter of each sin (with Greed replaced by Avarice, for uniqueness). Then it will be possible look at WE = Cattiness and see imediately that it refers to Wrath and Envy.

I’m so happy that so many people are discovering you and praising you for your work. You are so special, so unique, and I’ve just used the word “so” four times in two sentences. Five, if you count that last one.

I see this one gets the oooo-aahh — but frankly they are very well done–are you a symbolic logic junky? Be very careful — you are bordering on metaphysics — and then you might have to take things seriously — yikes! The Q-card thing — as presentation — should inspire gobs of people to beleive in their ability to be novel!!! Not that my opinion matters — but I give it two shaggys to the Hagy and one shizzel to the top ‘o the Hizzel!!!!! Oh no I’m getting way too excited and I think I may have just —– bookmarked!!

A brilliant depiction of K7, the complete graph on seven vertices. The only thing I would have done differently was giving the vertices the first letters of the corresponding deadly sins, thus spelling out PEWSLAG.

Love the diagram. I laughed out loud (at the coffee shop) when I read “edible undies” and “fat men in Speedos” along with their corresponding letters. If only the class I took in Moral Theology used such real life examples it might have been more interesting!

Ty just showed me this one. I laughed so much that I had to print it and put it up in my cube for everyone else to enjoy! I keep telling him I want to meet you…since he has yet to arrange it I thought I would go right to the source.

This is great, and I’m going to use this in an invited lecture I’ll be giving next month on the seven — or eight — deadly sins (a story there, but I’ll skip it here). I’d like to point out two things.

First, strictly speaking, the excellent diagram and combinations you’ve worked out are not really an algebra but a combinatoric — doubtless you knew that, but also knew that most people would relate to a better known term, no?

Second, these kinds of combinatorics have a long pedigree in moral philosophy and theology — the issue is whether vices (which is what the seven deadly sins are — deadly because productive of others) can combine or interfere with, even prevent each other. Again, a great diagram which I’ll use in classes where we discuss the vices (and the virtues)